Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
ANDRE GIDETrust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. It’s their way of falling.
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Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.
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It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
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The truth is that as soon as we are no longer obliged to earn our living, we no longer know what to do with our life and recklessly squander it.
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Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
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Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
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The color of truth is gray.
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What would a narrative of happiness be like? All that can be described is what prepares it, and then what destroys it.
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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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Envying another man’s happiness is madness; you wouldn’t know what to do with it if you had it.
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Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.
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Poverty makes a slave out of men. In order to eat he will accept work that gives no pleasure.
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Welcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
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Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all.
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Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
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